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HUGO ALEXY, OF BUDA-FESTE, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

RAIL-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,518, dated October 4, 1892.

Application filed October 17. 1891. Serial No. 409.079. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGO ALEXY, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Buda-Pesth, Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Fastenings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the present invention, which is a new manner of fastening railway-ties to the iron cross-tie, is to form a reliable and durable connection between the rails or bars and the cross-tie in such a manner that there is a certain changeability of the gage of way and that the separate fastening means completely fill out the holes and openings of the cross-tie intended for their reception, and thus avoid loosening and the consequent wear of the cross-tie.

The accompanying drawings show the complete mounted connection in Figures l, 2, and 3 in three different gage-widths on the track prole and the longitudinal section of the tie. Fig. 4. is a side view. Fig. 5 is a plan View. Figs. 6, 7, and 8 show the ground-plate of the track-connecting parts in top view, cross-section, and side view. Figs. 9 and l0 are detail parts in front and rear views.

As seen from the drawings, the whole connection consists of five pieces--viz., the ground-plate a., the two catches h and h,.and the locking-hook c with the locking-wedge d. The mounting of these different parts to a fast connection is as follows: The crosstie c has two slots e and e2 in its longitudinal direction which correspond to the incisions a? and a2 of the groundplate a. The rectangular ground-plate a lies on the tie e so that its incision a comes to lie over the hole e2 of the latter and its slot a2 lies over the hole e2 of the tie. The rail f lies in the usual way on the ground-plate and crosswise to the tie, and its flange rests on one side against the raising a of the ground-plate. The catching-hook b is put with its lower nose b through the incision a. of the plate a and through the hole c of the tie, so that its lower nose h comes to lie against the lower surface of the tie,while it rests with its upper nose Z1 on the upper side of the tie and catches with its second upper nose 19 the flange of the rail. The ground-plate a itself engages with its nose a4 in the hole c2 of the cross-tie.

The second catching-hook b is put through the openings n.2 and c2 of the ground-plate a, and tie c and catches the flange with its upper nose b2 and rests against the lower surface of the tie with its long lower nose b3. Now the wedge is inserted into these same openings and is put down as far as possible,

so that the locking-hook c can also be there l inserted with its lower bent end. If the wedge cl is now tightened by means of its screw d' and nut d2, the whole connection is made fast and the rail lies fast through the catching hooks b and h. If the connection is to be opened, the wedge d is first loosened, so that the locking-hook c can be easily pulled out, whereupon the whole connection can be un-` done in reversed order tothe fastening.

To facilitate the handling of the locking?` hook when drawing it out, its head has, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, been made broader on both sides.

In this kind of rail-fastener the changeability of the gage is obtained in making some of the parts which can be exchanged of diiferent dimensions, as seen from Figs. 1 to 3. These changeable parts are the catching-hook lathe nose a4 of the ground-plate a., and the lockinghook c.

Fig. 2 shows, for example, the rail f with the ground-plate a in the normal middle position. In Fig. l, however, both are, pushed to the right, in which case the dimension B of the catching-hook b, as also the dimension of the nose a4 of the plate ce, becomes greater, while the dimension j of the locking-hook c becomes less. Fig. 3, however, shows the rail f and the ground-plate. a pushed to the left, in which case Qc and j have become smaller and j alone is larger. The proportion of the increase and decrease of the dimensions B and j is seen in that thesum of both (j and B) is constant. The dimension increases and decreases for the length of the displacement. To avoid the making of ground-plates a, with. noses a4, of different dimensions, the same can, as in Figs. 6, 7, and 8, be made without the nose by using insertion-pieces a5 and by making the slot a2 of the ground-plate a T- shaped. These insertion-pieces a5 lie with their broader upper part in the wider part of the slot a2, while their lower part, replacing the former nose a4, engages in the slot c2 of the IOO tie. rIhe dimension of theinsertion-piece isthen/,naturally only varied, while the groundplate remains the same in all cases.

I claim- 1. In combination With the slotted tie and the rail, a plate upon which the rail bears, having openings'a a2 and the nose a4 to lit into the opening in the tie,the hooks b and h', having catching projections to bear upon the rail-flange and the tie, the said hooks passing through the openings in the plate and tie, the locking-hook c, and the Wedge interposed between the hook b and the locking-hook c,

said Wedge having a screw-threaded end, and the nut d2 thereon, sulostantiallgfv as described.

2. In combination, the slottedv cross-tie, the base-plate @,having the openings therein, the rail resting thereon, the hooks adapted to pass through said openings, and the Wedgingmeans for clamping the parts in place, the said plate a having a removable nose a", adapted to the opening in the cross-tie, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HUGO ALEXY. Witnesses: F. L. JAMESON,

S. J. DREUL. 

